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This book yields a comprehensive differential geometric approach to the study of complex manifolds. It consists of three parts: 1. Riemannian geometry, 2. Complex manifolds, 3. Kähler geometry. Each part contains three chapters. The first part includes standard materials from general topology, differentiable manifold, and basic Riemannian geometry. The first chapter is devoted to the notion of differentiable manifolds, tangent spaces and vector fields as well as vector bundles, especially tangent bundles. The author introduces also singular homology groups, Betti numbers, Euler number and explains their properties for further considerations. The last section contains definitions and some basic properties of Lie groups and Lie algebras. The author includes in the appendix some basic notions from general topology which makes reading of book easier to one who is not familiar with this topic. Metrics, connections and curvature in general setting, as well as in the tangent bundle, including the various derivations of the Riemann curvature tensor are done in the second chapter. Chapter 3 contains the geometry of complete Riemannian manifolds: Riemannian distance, completeness, Jacobi fields, homogeneous spaces, etc. The second part discusses complex manifolds and analytic varieties, holomorphic vector bundles, sheaves, sheaf cohomology groups as well as Chern classes. The last chapter of this part gives a brief account of the surface classification theory to provide some concrete examples of complex manifolds, necessary for better understanding of this topic. The last part is the main purpose of the book, in which the author discusses metrics, connections, curvature and the various roles they played in the study of complex manifolds. So, especially this part deals with Wu's theorem, Schwarz Lemma, Hartogs Phenomen, the Hartshorne-Frankel Conjecture as well as Calabi's Conjecture. At the end of each chapter the author gives exercises, which serve the purpose of enhancing the comprehension of the topics.